{"id":166523,"date":"2026-03-17T19:38:59","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T19:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/166523\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T19:38:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T19:38:59","slug":"crews-battle-blaze-at-midtown-manhattan-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/166523\/","title":{"rendered":"Crews Battle Blaze at Midtown Manhattan Building"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A large fire broke out on upper levels of a high-rise building in Midtown Manhattan on Tuesday morning, March 17.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The blaze broke out at 6 East 43rd Street, one block from where the St Patrick\u2019s Day Parade was scheduled to begin at 11 am.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The New York City Fire Department (FDNY) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FDNY\/status\/2033910556139135130\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:said;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;said&quot;}\" class=\"link \">said<\/a> crews were responding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to one <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7ny.com\/post\/midtown-apartment-fire-sends-smoke-air-manhattan-nyc\/18724755\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:local news report;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;local news report&quot;}\" class=\"link \">local news report<\/a>, the cause of the fire is not known and there was no word on any injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Footage taken by X user @TiGermanNYC shows thick black smoke rising from the building in Midtown and spreading across the skyline. A second clip taken by @TiGermanNYC shows firefighters on the roof of the building near the flames. Credit: @TiGermanNYC via Storyful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A large fire broke out on upper levels of a high-rise building in Midtown Manhattan on Tuesday morning,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166524,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,3412,9,24,37283,63,68276],"class_list":["post-166523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-midtown-manhattan","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-fire-department","tag-nyc","tag-upper-levels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}